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Everyone relish eating sabzi prepare with lady finger, especially kids.
Today we’ll make Okra sabzi with tomatoes for unique taste.
We’ll be making Bhindi-tomato sabzi and it taste scrumptious.
Let’s start with the procedure of making Okra-tomato sabzi.
For making the sabzi, cut the lady fingers first.
We have taken 250 grams lady fingers.
We have washed the okras thoroughly and dried them completely.
Try selecting lady finger which is smooth on surface and check by breaking its ends.
If its ends break easily, that means lady finger is smooth and soft.
So, select the correct lady fingers from market.
Now cut them.
For this, take 1 lady finger and cut off its head and tail.
Cut okra in ½ or 0.75 inch round chunks.
Likewise cut all lady fingers.
We are done with chopping the okras.
We have taken 2 (100 grams) tomatoes and we’ll chop them finely as well.
We have already washed and dried the tomatoes.
We are done with chopping the tomatoes as well and now we’ll make the sabzi.
Preheat a pan and 2 to 3 tbsp oil into it.
When oil is hot, add ½ tsp cumin seeds.
After sautéing cumin seeds, add 1 pinch asafoetida, ¼ tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp coriander powder, ½ tsp ginger paste.
You can use ½ inch ginger piece (finely chopped) instead of ginger paste.
We have also taken 2 green chilies (finely chopped), add them as well.
Saute the spices for a while and then add chopped tomatoes, lady finger, ¾ salt or as per taste, ¼ tsp red chilly powder.
You can increase the quantity of red chilly powder for spicier taste and if you prefer eating less
spicy then avoid adding it as green chilies and ginger will give correct spiciness to the sabzi.
Mix all the spices with vegetables really well, cover and cook it for 5 minutes on low flame.
Check later.
It’s been 5 minutes, check the sabzi now and stir.
It is really important to check and stir the sabzi at regular intervals as they can burn at the bottom due to lack of water or moisture.
Stir the sabzi, cover and cook for another 5 minutes.
Check again later.
5 minutes have passed, check the sabzi now.
Lady fingers cook quickly.
We have cooked the sabzi for 10 minutes in total and okra is now soft.
Increase the flame so that juice released from tomatoes, evaporates.
Cook the sabzi for 1 to 2 minutes on high flame.
We have cooked the sabzi on high flame as it is for 2 minutes and the tomato juice has evaporated.
Now add 1 tsp fennel powder.
Try adding it in the end so that its aroma stays for long in the sabzi.
Now add green coriander in the end to have lasting aroma.
Mix all ingredients and turn off the flame.
Bhindi tomato sabzi is ready, take it out in a plate.
Mouth drooling Okra-tomato sabzi is ready, garnish with some green coriander leaves.
Serve steaming hot bhindi tomato sabzi with chapatti, parantha or rice.
This much quantity of sabzi can be served to 3 to 4 family members as side dish.
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